Rayful Edmond: Washington D.C.'s Most Notorious Drug Lord - Brossura

Ferranti, Seth

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0980068770 ISBN 13: 9780980068771

Casa editrice: Gorilla Convict Publications, 2013

Riassunto

When the crack era was jumping off in the 1980s Rayful Edmond was flooding Washington DC and the East Coast with tons of Cali cartel cocaine he obtained through an LA's Crip's gang member's connection. Millions of dollars or drug money, luxury automobiles, jewelry and dime pieces galore, Rayful was living the gangster high life of Tony Montana in Scarface and doing it like Mafia Dons in his Washington DC neighborhood of Northeast. He was the Robin Hood of the ghetto, beloved by the kids for his charming ways and dashing manners. This is his story.

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L'autore:

Seth Ferranti is a prisoner of America's failed War on Drugs and has been writing true crime tales from inside the belly of the beast for the last 20 years. He founded gorillaconvict.com and Gorilla Convict Publications from his cell block and has watched it grow into a successful and viable website and publishing house. Seth also writes for Don Diva and F.E.D.S. magazines, thedailybeast.com, thefix.com and other magazines and websites. Check out his blog on gorillaconvict.com which posts a new story every week and check out his six published books on prison life and urban gangsters.

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To many in his hometown of Washington, D.C., during his 1980s reign as the city's biggest cocaine and crack dealer, Rayful Edmond was public enemy number one. At the height of Dodge City's brutal crack epidemic in 1987, this 22-year-old man was responsible for distributing 60 percent of the cocaine that flooded the city's streets. In the Chocolate City, Rayful was the undisputed king of cocaine. He was street royalty with a certified gangster resume. At his peak Rayful sold 2,000 keys a week, reaped gross profits of $70 million a month and ran an operation with over 150 soldiers to support him. By his early twenties he had established himself as the city's most notorious drug kingpin. In the high profile and glamorous life he led, champagne flowed like water, trips to Las Vegas, New York and Los Angeles were commonplace and $50,000 shopping sprees were the routine. Rayful personified the big city drug lord and his stature epitomized all the accolades that position demanded. To the mainstream media, he encompassed all that was wrong with the city's crack epidemic, but in the streets Rayful was a hero, an inner-city gangster who made it to the top echelons of the drug trade. A Lucky Luciano, Billy the Kid-type figure. But there were consequences to his reign. His volcanic rise coincided with an unprecedented explosion of street violence and drug addiction in the capital city. The era is remembered for murder, mayhem and bloodshed. Historians have blamed the crack storm that seized D.C. on Rayful, but Rayful maintained he was only trying to help his family live a better life and enjoy the finer materialistic trappings of capitalism that were often denied denizens of the ghetto. To the block huggers, four corner hustlers and hood mainstays Rayful was beloved, even worshipped. His appeal crossed boundaries and he was adored by children and adults alike. But to others he was feared, a man who wreaked havoc on his community. Neighborhood people saw the effects of his crack

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• Editore: Gorilla Convict Publications
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0980068770
• ISBN 13: 9780980068771
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192